Health
As of 2009, the principal cause of death was cardiovascular disease, at 42%, followed by malignant tumours, at 25%. As of 2008, about 82,000 Germans had been infected with HIV/AIDS and 26,000 had died from the disease (cumulatively, since 1982). According to a 2005 survey, 27% of German adults are smokers. A 2009 study shows Germany is near the median in terms of overweight and obese people in Europe.
Read more about this topic: Demographics Of Germany
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“A major difference between witches and psychotherapists is that witches see the mental health of women as having important political consequences.”
—Naomi R. Goldenberg (b. 1947)
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—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)